Liverpool Survive Relentless Raids To Edge Chelsea
22 September 2019
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With five minutes to go Jurgen Klopp was hopping up and down, literally, in frustration as the ball kept coming back into the Liverpool penalty area and the pressure grew.

It will be pressure all the way this season, it seems.
But Liverpool held on and in winning away at Chelsea re-established their five-point lead at the head of the Premier League.

The fact is, despite the comeback they faced, with three Chelsea defenders sinking to the ground in frustration and Frank Lampard dropping to his haunches as Mason Mount spurned a 90 minute chance to equalise, this was another vital victory.
After Manchester City’s 8-0 humiliation of Watford , Liverpool needed a riposte and here it was as they became the first team to win their first six Premier League games in two successive seasons and stretched their record run of league victories to 15 even if they were stretched at times.
Up until they rallied after half-time it had appeared that Chelsea, committed as they are to playing the kids, were boys against men facing Liverpool.

But there is promise in this team and it needs to be persevered with even if they are yet to gain a clean sheet under Lampard – or win at home.

There was a certainty; a sense of surety about Liverpool’s first-half goals with both coming from well-worked free-kicks. For the first Sadio Mane was clumsily fouled by Andreas Christensen on the edge of the Chelsea penalty area and Jordan Henderson shaped to take the free-kick before it was rolled by Mohamed Salah, with the soul of his foot, to Trent Alexander-Arnold.

The change of angle did for a disorganised Chelsea defensive wall which was made more chaotic when Jorginho turned his back on the ball as Alexander-Arnold fired it past him and high into top corner of the net.The Telegraph

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